Chapter 134 Chapter 134 "Then I will go back to Luojing first. ...
"Nothing." He touched her waist, feeling it warm. "How could I have known he was so weak? He was such a strong guy, and I didn't hold back. Who would have thought that I would have nearly killed him with one blow? So, I didn't have time."
She finally felt relieved.
"What are you going to do with him?" Are you going to interrogate him?
"That's up to you." He lowered his head and rubbed hers. "What do you want to do? If killing him brings a lot of trouble, then keep him."
"The key is, even if he dies, I'll soon have new teachers. Wu Dao has been with me for over a decade, so at least we know each other well. He's very clueless, so if I want him to do something, I can just use a little trick. And..."
"A little trick."
He suddenly laughed when he heard it.
Back then, Jiaojiao was innocent and simple. Unexpectedly, the real owner turned out to be a scheming and clever person.
Being simple is not a bad thing, but being smart is better.
He rubbed her face, moved closer and kissed her lips, leaving her stunned.
"What are you doing? Talk, don't kiss."
He smiled, "I couldn't help it. Go ahead."
"Besides, he's usually in charge of communicating with informants. To control us, the sect never allows us to interfere. I don't know who his superiors' informants are. So, it's best not to kill him. If possible, I'd like to use him for my own purposes. However, that's a bit more difficult."
She went on talking one by one, counting on her fingers as she spoke, and suddenly raised her eyes and asked him:
"Do you still know the recipe for the Forget Worry Powder that you guys at Tianshan used to make?"
"Forget Worry Powder." He smiled, "Yes."
"Then use Forget Worry Powder. Can it erase three months' worth of memories?"
When she stopped talking, she realized that he had already tilted his head to the tip of her nose without her knowing when, so close that their breaths were intertwined. She was stunned for a moment, "What are you doing..."
He suddenly came down and kissed her lips, and their soft lips stuck together.
She was stunned, "What are you going to do...don't kiss me first!"
"Good girl," he pulled his arm out and laid her down on the couch. He leaned over and pressed her down, kissing her and sucking her lips. "You're so smart. Why didn't you tell me this before?"
"I told you not to kiss me yet!" She lowered her voice and pushed him away. "If he wakes up, he can hear every noise in this tower."
"What if she heard it? You still need to use the Forget Worry Powder." He didn't care and deliberately pecked her again before touching her chin. "Go ahead."
"Forget Worry Powder can just erase Sanyue's memory. I've been in the palace for just over two months now. So, why not make him lose his memory and let him return to me with an empty mind. Then I'll tell him that this mission is not only to kill the emperor—" She tapped his chest with her index finger, "—but also to kill you."
"Kill me?" He raised his eyebrows and laughed out loud.
"If I kill you, he won't be able to stop me from looking for you. If you're with me, he won't be able to follow me around all the time. It will be much easier for me to do anything I want."
"Okay." He watched her use Chu Jiaojiao's face to do things that Chu Jiaojiao could never do, and found it particularly fresh and interesting. "Then wouldn't it be much more convenient for us to meet?"
"The most foolproof thing about this matter," she laughed, "is that Wu Dao is also afraid of the Gate of Rebirth. When he discovers that he has lost his memory, he will definitely not dare to say anything because he doesn't know if he has revealed anything. When he comes back to me with an empty head, with his temper, he will definitely use harsh words to deceive me -"
She covered her mouth and laughed:
"Then, I quickly revealed his amnesia. He had no choice but to use my leverage against him. Furthermore, I only told him that he had a new mission, not a new one. This way, he wouldn't be suspicious of the instructions given to him by his informant. And I—" she smiled smugly, "was much freer."
He buried his head in the crook of her neck and laughed for a while.
She spoke like a rapid-fire machine gun, with almost no space between sentences. It was a well-thought-out idea that did not require much thought, which surprised him a little.
"Let's do this." He kissed her collarbone lightly, causing her body to itch.
"There's one more thing I want to ask you." She held his face in her hands and looked into his eyes seriously, "Where are Qinglian and Yuanxiang?"
He laughed, "What do you think?"
"What do I say?"
He stood up, smiling as he massaged her slender collarbone. "After being tortured for a while, they each vomited a little. However, they weren't important figures to begin with, so they didn't know much. I was afraid they would resent you and become disloyal, so," he laughed, "I used the Forget Worry Powder early on."
She breathed a sigh of relief. "You thought of that too?"
He said, "Of course."
"It's a good thing you didn't kill them."
Qinglian looked just like her, making her a perfect stand-in. With Qinglian by her side, she could act without any worries.
He suddenly pressed her down and kissed her again, but she turned her head away. She went up and covered his mouth, "I told you not to kiss me, but you haven't finished what I said. Let's go back to the palace—"
"Everything will be the same as before when we return to the palace." He blinked twice, his eyelashes covered by black silk, with her covering the lower half of his face. He would neither refuse nor question, "I will come to you when I miss you. When we meet on weekdays, a polite nod will be enough. When we meet in private..." He gently pushed aside her folded collar, "...however it should be."
She took a deep breath and sighed.
"Can't you just bear it for a few months?"
"No." He said firmly, "Hasn't I endured enough?"
She had nothing to say and sighed.
Suddenly there were two knocks on the door.
Yun Chui said hurriedly outside the door: "Master, I have something important to report."
Gu Zhi stood up after hearing this: "What's the matter?"
Yun Chui: "The personal troops sent by the Emperor arrived at Wuliang Mountain this morning and are waiting in front of the mountain gate."
Nan Qiongshuang slowly sat up from the couch, pushed aside the quilt, and looked at him.
Yun Chui: "General Chang He, who leads the imperial army, said that the situation in the capital is tense. The Regent and the Emperor are at odds. The Emperor has issued an order that the headmaster and the Empress must return to the palace today."
She held her hands behind her back, breathed softly, and thought for a moment.
"Let's go back first." She raised her eyes. "The imperial edict has been delivered to the mountain. We can't delay any longer."
He remained silent.
After a long pause, he said, "I can't go back. The recipe for Forget Worry Powder must not be passed on to others. I'm worried about handing it over to others."
"Then I'll go back first." She stretched out her slender wrist, asking him to remove the handcuffs. "The emperor's personal troops have been sent to the front of the mountain. I'm afraid he's furious. We can't delay any longer. At least one of us must go back today."
Gu Zhi lowered his eyelashes for a long while without saying a word.
Finally, he let out a long sigh, took out a small key from his sleeve, and with a click, unlocked the handcuffs on her wrists.
She stood up with a twist of her wrist, her white dress trailing down the bed as she moved. She glanced at the window and said, "Tell them to bring me the clothes I wore when I went up the mountain, and send two maids up to help me dress. Where are the things you took earlier?"
"What?"
He turned to look at her. She was standing at the window, with a vast expanse of green mountains outside. The sky had become brighter, making her white dress appear a bit blue. She looked out with her head lowered, without any sadness.
It's like this again.
As long as she thought of her mission, the Gate of Rebirth, and those things in Luo Jing, she would immediately put him out of her mind.
Even if they meet every day in the palace in the future, I am afraid that he will never see her on the Four Symbols Tower again.
"My ring, hidden weapons, and pills. Everything you took from me in the Fountain of Eternal Life that day."
He suppressed his sorrow, held the two iron cuffs that had just been removed from her wrists, and stroked them reluctantly, "Yun Chui. Bring all the Majesty's things. Send a maid to help the Majesty dress up."
"yes."
"After we go back," she rubbed her wrist, which had turned red from being locked up, and carefully examined the kiss marks on her neck and shoulder in the mirror, "we should put the overall situation first. You take care of your plan of fighting two tigers in one mountain, and I'll take care of my mission."
"What on earth are you..." He turned around and looked at her.
She knew what he was going to ask before he even finished speaking.
"I need to think about it. I'll give you an answer when I return to the palace." She sat in front of the mirror. His face was clearly reflected in it, but she was too busy combing her hair to even bother looking at him in the mirror. "The key is whether the Wangsheng Sect will keep its promise. Once this matter is confirmed, I can make a decision on whether to rebel or not. Right now, I'm not sure. I need to get more information from various sources before I can make a final conclusion."
"But..." She paused combing her hair.
"But what?" He really couldn't stand her clear-cut attitude.
She sighed, "But, the disaster at Tianshan back then... I owe you. Even if I didn't rebel, I would still give you what you want." She placed the comb on the table and turned to put on the Spider Rose ring that Yunchui handed her. "It's just that I can't give it to you now."
He stood up silently.
Yunchui immediately lowered his head and retreated.
His figure was reflected in the mirror, his long clothes as black as ink, and he seemed like a gloomy and difficult shadow: "Shuang'er. If you don't rebel, even if you tell me everything, I can't be with you."
There was a rustling sound of jewelry and clothes being sorted in the room, but no one answered.
She stood up. The maids surrounded her and changed her clothes. She just lowered her eyelashes and let them take off her white clothes.
He now vaguely understood her silence.
If she didn't want to betray, she would not betray even if it meant breaking up the relationship.
She loved him, but she would not allow love to sway any of her decisions.
Although, after taking off her white clothes, her body was covered with dense kiss marks.
He felt an inexpressible blockage and uneasiness in his chest. He walked to the window and grabbed the back of the wooden chair uncontrollably. With a bit of self-masochistic pleasure, he used the wood to hit his finger bones hard.
"I'm leaving today." She inserted her pearl hairpins into her gradually tucked-up hair. She checked the height of the beads on both sides in the mirror. "When we get back to the palace, tell them to continue as usual, but remember to prioritize the overall situation. If you want to take risks, don't meet for now. The Forbidden City is like no other place..."
"You're not allowed to see him," he interrupted abruptly, his tone almost rude. "You're not allowed to meet him privately. Have as little contact with him as possible. You told me to consider the overall situation, but you didn't allow me to see you. How come you meet him privately on the lake every day?"
"I'm not with him..." She could tell his tone was off. "I have nothing to do with him. Besides, the Emperor occupies a small portion of the Forbidden City, and the rest belongs to the Regent. The servants are the best at surrendering, and the Emperor is cruel and unpopular. Who would offend the Regent for the Emperor? It won't affect the overall situation, so of course it's fine. But you and I..."
She turned around and looked at him. "You and I are both the emperor's people. If we are not careful, no one will be in trouble."
He finally understood today that she was a person who only used her brain, not her feelings, when doing things.
He laughed and said, "I'm not asking you how you dare to meet him every day, but why you meet him."
She blinked in the mirror and slowly put on the emerald earrings.
Why?
It was rare for her to have a friend who didn't require her to put on an act and who shared the same temperament. Moreover, he was of high status, held power, and didn't act like a nobleman towards her. So why shouldn't she even be friends with him?
She didn't respond, finished dressing, and stood up.
"I really have nothing to do with him. Besides, the overall situation is the most important thing. If I can get the support of the Regent, why not take it?"
She finally adjusted her skirt as the maids filed out. She put on her gold rings one by one. Just as she looked up, she saw him in the mirror walking away and closing the door silently. "Why did you close the door?"
Suddenly, an arm was tightened around her waist, and then her feet were lifted off the ground. She screamed, and suddenly drew an arc in the air, and fell heavily into the messy quilt.
"what you do?!"
She turned over and was about to sit up when he suddenly held her shoulders and pinned her to the couch.
The hot breath sprayed on her nose, and the beads of the hairpin hit her face, and she lost her voice.
The person in front of me had his eyes covered and a smile on his lips.
"Your Highness, you really have to go back to the palace to be your Highness." He ruffled the hem of her skirt and pushed it down. She was terrified to notice his eager gaze. She was still wearing the clothes of an imperial concubine, and her toes twitched in fear. "What are you doing! My hair is full of pearls..."
"How long will your Highness fight me with this kind of official rhetoric about things that have nothing to do with you?" He slowly slid a hand in, causing her waist to tremble. "This is not the time for your Highness to cry and ask for me in my bed, huh?"
"You...!" She didn't dare to act rashly - her hair was covered with pearls, and it took a long time to untie it. She just grabbed his wide robe sleeve and said, "Let me go! The personal soldiers are outside. I know Chang He. If you come with me now..."
Her long, embroidered dress lay spread across the couch, her knees gradually rising and opening like flowers, each knee draped over his shoulders. Gradually, a wave of horror washed over her. "Gu Huaijin," she said, almost as a warning. "Don't delay my business. Now's not the time for this kind of thing. If you really..." The words suddenly broke off, and she bit her lip, forcing herself to endure. He ignored her, kissing her deeply from below, licking her like ants biting her body. Even when she was lucid, she still struggled to resist: "You..."
Suddenly, Yun Chui's cold and indifferent voice came again.
"Master, General Chang has the imperial edict and insists on entering the mountain. The disciples at the mountain gate cannot stop him. General Chang He is already waiting at the foot of the tower. Master, please..."
The sound was just outside the door. Her heart skipped a beat, as if she had been seen in person, and she stood up in panic.
In the blink of an eye, he pressed her down again and kissed her forcefully without regard for the consequences.
She tilted her head on the couch, bit her fingers in her mouth, and tried hard not to make a sound.
Outside the door are the secret guards, under the tower are the personal soldiers. On the bed is the good boy, under the bed is the queen.
As soon as this thought exploded in her mind, she could hardly hold it back.
She gritted her teeth and didn't say a word - Yun Chui was a secret guard, so if she spoke to him, Yun Chui would naturally be able to hear her - while she clenched her fists and bit them in her mouth.
Since it has to be this way...it has come to this...then just bear with it, quickly.
What on earth is this guy trying to do?
Suddenly, he touched her snow-white calf with one hand, then grasped her slender ankle and clasped it with his hand.
With a click.
The movement of his lips suddenly stopped, and he raised his head, panting. She opened her eyes belatedly, puzzled, and when she saw the glistening water stains on his lips, she felt so embarrassed that she almost burned. She had been so reluctant just now, but he suddenly stopped. She felt a little empty. "What's wrong?"
His hand moved away from her calf.
A thin red rope was tied to her feet, with a string of golden bells in the middle.
"Your Majesty, please wear a bell. It will sound nice and look good. Then, when you hang your legs on my shoulders, the bell will sound beautiful and add to the fun."
She let out a long breath, biting it between her teeth, her heart chilled.
What does it mean to have legs on his shoulders? Does he know there are clouds hanging outside the door?!
"Master."
Her heart skipped a beat.
Now was not the time to worry about whether anyone heard. She grabbed his sleeve and said, "No. I'm an assassin. If I make a sound when I move, how can I—"
"The sound of the bell is so subtle that even I need to concentrate and listen carefully to detect it." He nodded politely, "Your Majesty, don't worry."
"Why did you bring this to me?" She grabbed his arm and glared at him in shock and anger.
Yun Chui: "Master, General Chang He has urged us several times under the tower—"
"Of course, it's because I want to know where Your Majesty is at all times." He finally felt relieved and stood up, holding out his hand to her. "Otherwise, if Your Majesty refuses to see me today and tomorrow, I have something to report, so where can I find Her Majesty?"
"You," she sneered, lowering her voice out of consideration for the people outside the door, "you just...just wanted to put this on me?"
"Otherwise, with Your Majesty's temper, how could she agree?" He laughed, then his face darkened again. "I have one last piece of advice for Your Majesty. Do not meet him privately, do not see him, do not ask him for help, and do not rely on him."
One sentence after another, with emphasis on each sentence, as if a knife was chopping on a chopping board.
"Otherwise, don't blame me for disregarding our former friendship and killing him without a trace, until his remains are scattering to ashes."
She sat on the couch, her breath hanging in the air, unable to fall.
If I agree to be with him, I will have to give up the protection of the Regent. Is it worth it?
She might give it another thought.
She ignored the hand he extended, walked to the dressing mirror, and straightened the pearl hairpin that had been shaken crooked.
Yun Chui: "Master, Madam——"
She lifted her skirt and said, "Let's get down from the tower first." After taking two steps, she turned back and said to him, "It's best to use the Forget Worry Powder on that guy Wu Dao before he wakes up. You don't know how good people like them are at escaping and hiding."
He listened, expressionless.
She turned around abruptly, and he thought she had something personal to say to him. Unexpectedly, when she opened her mouth, she had nothing to say to him, and he felt a sense of suffocation and irritation in his heart.
Yun Chui left the Four Symbols Tower and waited outside. The two of them were silent for a moment, each with their own thoughts, as they left the tower.
But at the bottom door of the tower, he saw a huge, cocoon-like creature thrown into the darkness.
A mouthful of whitened fangs, even in the darkness inside the tower, still looked sharp and white.
Nan Qiongshuang's heart suddenly tightened.
Wu Dao woke up.
He smiled, with sour hot air coming out of his mouth, and glanced at her face with ill intent.
"You bastard, you really are a traitor."
Her steps were immediately nailed to the spot, and she began to tremble instantly. She was filled with fear of weightlessness and could not move a step.
Gu Zhi took a step forward, quietly put his hands behind his back, and stood in front of her with his long clothes hanging down to the ground.
Wu Dao raised his purple eyelids and saw that he was carefully protecting Nan Qiong Shuang behind him, looking like he could not be defeated by anyone. The corners of his mouth widened even more.
Nan Qiong Shuang had a momentary intuition about that smile.
Something is wrong.
The moment she held the flying needle between her fingers, Wu Dao grinned and spoke:
"Oh, so protective. Back then, that kid named Li stole the Yin-Yang Key and set fire to Tianshan Mountain in order to elope with her. In the end, it was the woman next to you who showed him a secret passage and let him escape."
His lips moved:
"The criminal who set the mountain on fire was spared by her right under your nose. Tsk, tsk, what a deep bond. Not to mention, this was the first time they met—"
With a whoosh, the silver needle pierced his mute acupoint and his voice was cut off.
Wu Dao laughed in a hoarse voice, breathing heavily, his forehead resting on the ground, his eyes rolling up to look at her, his laughter twitching.
"Good boy." The person in front of him turned around calmly, "First meeting, how is it?"
Nan Qiongshuang stood behind him and heard a loud bang in her head, a sound like the collapse of heaven and earth.
Listening carefully again, the tower was still quiet.
it's over.
Although she interrupted him halfway through his words, the silver needle that was trying to cover up his mistake was already the answer.
There were so many things she couldn't tell him.
She lowered her eyes and walked around him without saying a word. She took a wooden step and pushed open the door of the Four Symbols Tower.
The door opened. A ray of morning light outside, growing brighter and wider, sliced through the base of the tower, splitting the two men apart.
One is in the light, the other is in the dark.
She walked out of the Four Symbols Tower, leaving him alone in the tower.
Later, when General Chang He met Emperor Jiaqing, he expressed his feelings to him, saying that Empress Zhenfei "missed the emperor so much that she burst into tears as soon as she saw me."
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